On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Uri Moszkowicz <uri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm testing out the sparse checkout feature of Git on my large (14GB) > repository and am running into a problem. When I add "dir1/" to > sparse-checkout and then run "git read-tree -mu HEAD" I see dir1 as > expected. But when I add "dir2/" to sparse-checkout and read-tree > again I see dir2 and dir3 appear and they're not nested. If I replace > "dir2/" with "dir3/" in the sparse-checkout file, then I see dir1 and > dir3 but not dir2 as expected again. How can I debug this problem? Posting here is step 1. What version are you using? You can look at unpack-trees.c The function that does the check is excluded_from_list. You should check "ls-files -t", see if CE_SKIP_WORKTREE is set correctly for all dir1/*, dir2/* and dir3/*. Can you recreate a minimal test case for the problem? -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html